Our company built a brand new corporate building with the latest technology. The bed bugs came a month later. I was told to lie about them. Bed bug prevalence is a public taboo topic.
Apartments, motels, everywhere I lived had them. But it takes people years to self educate how the threat operates. Townhome owners are in denial.
Only a detached home can protect against them.
You cannot control your neighbor's lifestyle. One motel visit, and your neighbor has bed bugs. They can lie dormant for two years, hiding inside their home.
Most people think it is a mosquito bite. But then, one year later, through your common wall, you get bit, bit, bit. Ouch. That is dense living.
Ain't nothing you can do about it. Just like poo disease, you cannot defeat Mother Nature. Life survives, even organisms hostile to you.
Get self educated.
And that is why I would NEVER live in a townhome, condo or apartment. They are less than human habitable. And your dogs suffer bites the owner is unaware of.
“Get self educated.”
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I am self-educated. I have lived in a condo for 14 years,no problem.
I have friends and relatives in condos-—no problem.
Anyone who travels can pick them up no matter what type of housing they choose-——but to say ALL multi unit housing has bedbugs is not true.
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My co-worker’s husband is in charge of a major security companies maintenance for the entire building in a city with the population around 250,000 people. They moved into a newly constructed building and almost immediately they got bed bugs. She says he has extermination crews in a minimum of once a month and usually twice to try and kill them out. Some people are just down right nasty and do not care how it effects them or people around them.
I have never come into contact with a bedbug or seen direct or indirect evidence of an infestation in my 65 years (knock on a container of Diatomaceous Earth). And it’s not like I live on an isolated, sterile island. We visit thrift stores frequently and acquire some clothes there. Relatives visit who live in multi family structures and they aren’t infested either. The bedbug problem must be regional to a large extent.